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You read yesterday in parts 1 &2 about how after much running, scrambling, searching and decision making, we finally made it to our train that would take us back to Vienna. Or so we thought.

Part 3: Bad Luck

I don’t believe in bad luck. Not in the slightest. I do believe in bad coincidences, things that happen that you look back on later and go, “Funny how that worked out”. This bad coincidence started with – and I am not making this up – a black cat.

We were standing by this forsaken train station, recovering our breath after having just run uphill to catch a train that would come in 2 minutes and take us home, when Holly saw a black cat cross the train tracks. I point this out, again, not because I think it means anything, but only because what was about to happen made us think later of that black cat and go, “Really? A black cat? How cliche can you get?”

So the cat crossed the tracks, Holly made cat noises at it, and we waited for our train to come. Holly ate some Pringles, and I took some photos, satisfied that we were home free.

Lazily, a train worker came out of the station and smiled at us. We smiled back. She said something in Croatian. I said, “Train”, and pulled out our tickets to confirm to her that we were good to go. She smiled and shook her head, and repeated, “Train”. “Right,” I said, “Train. We have tickets. Wir haben Karten,” I repeated in German, just in case that would work. “Nein,” she said. “Ja,” I said. “Ne,” she said. “Da,” I said. “No,” she said. “No train.”

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I’m a 25-year-old OKC transplant currently living in Vienna, Austria with a journalism degree and a desire to still be in school (good thing I'm learning German right now). I write, I read, I shoot video and I take pictures - both for work and for fun. And, I love to travel most of all. I'm currently in Vienna with my wife to work with a local non-profit and church for two years.

I’m a Christian, fairly liberal, and I love these things: politics, traveling, media, music, attempting to understand the Bible, riding my bike, reading, writing, my amateur photography, video, playing guitar, trying to cook, wearing ties, the Daily Show, anything about other countries, architecture, and the direction my home city (OKC) is going.